But what about when your parents are (dad) a **** wit, and worthless cheating liar that was hardly ever around and barely did anything, and (mom) a racist **** tard that thinks its okay to hate your half black GF because she thinks "We were made different for a reason."?

I'm gonna need a better reason than 'becauseshe's growing old.'

Don't get me wrong, there are reasons, and Iove my mom, but hooooly **** has today been fun....

My parents are meth addicts (2 years in recovery now) and I was considered "homeless" when they were arrested and I had to live pretty much a closet of a room at my boyfriends parents house and apply to finish my senior year of high school myself. Then I applied to college myself with a ton of education scholarships because of my grades and was on the deans list. Most people I talk to would never believe the home I grew up in. I am very proud of what I have accomplished without them. Don't let them influence your life and the way you want to live and always strive to be the best you can be. My only goal in life was to to better than them, and thus far, I have succeeded. If I can do what I have done with the hand I was dealt, anybody can.

My dad abused me and my mother extensively throughout my childhood (post my sister's birth). He played favourites and would give the younger children all the sweetness and love there could be whilst damning me and telling my mom how worthless she was. There were times when I wanted to kill him, times when I wanted to kill myself, and times when I nearly acted upon both.

Yet, when he was murdered, it still hurt. I know that I would probably never have been capable of hurting him. I know that on some twisted level, he probably did love me and want what was best for me. I acknowledge that I loved him, and I forgive what he did.

I have developed into the most intelligent of my siblings, and this may be why I am so okay after growing up so differently from them. I am glad that it had been me.

Value the time you spend with your children, and remember... no matter the grief or sorrow you experience they will always be there for you. To the end of their days they will love you, and even in their last moments they will wish they would have had more time to spend with you. And remember, there is always another world out there